Mark R. Beissinger

Mark Beissinger is Henry W. Putnam Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He previously served on the faculties of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Beissinger is author or editor of six books. His Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State won multiple awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States in the field of government, politics, or international affairs, and the Mattei Dogan Award for the best book published in the field of comparative research. His new book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion deals with the impact of urbanization on the incidence, practice, and consequences of revolutions around the world over the past century. Beissinger's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Olin Foundations. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982.